♪ prosecution >> the fbi can't force the states to look at those cases >> the truth will set you free yeah...don't kid yourself >> the system has failed me >> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. with a look at today's fop stories. three americans killed today in an attack on a hospital in afghanistan, israel saying today it will stop peace talks from the palestinians. and the fda moving to crack down on e cigarettes. despicable and cowardly, that is wha obama

administration called today's attack. two latest in what appears to be a growing threat in kabul. officials say an afghan security guard, opened fire killing three americans including a doctor and wounding an american nurse. the washington post reports that 20 foreigners have been killed in afghanistan in the past three months. care line malone has the latest. >> the shooting happened inside a well guarded hospital in kabul. the attacker was supposed to be protecting those inside. people outside the compound heard the attack. >> i heard gunfire, and then i was told that three foreigners were shot debt. >> one of those kills was

a pediatrician. >> they were not carrying guns they did not have military uniforms. they came here under immense pressure. this was an inhumane attack, and unfortunately it will impact our health service. the motive is not yet known. five photographer was killed and another journalist injured after become shot by police officer earlier this month. as afghan forces gradually take over control, these types of attacks appear to show no sign of ending. >> care line malone, al jazeera. the soccers press is reporting that the taliban has reached out directly, to the u.s. government, he may be exchanged for five taliban detainees currently held in guantanamo. he was last seen in the

video the fall ban released in december. the latest effort to forge a peace deal, appears to have failed. israel said today it would halt peace talks with the palestinians after yesterday's unity agreement. which controls the gaza strip. al jazeera has more now from jerusalem. >> israeli prime minister called on an emergency session of his security cabinet, and after six hours of deliberations behind closed doors they unanimously decided to suspend on going talks with the palestinians. israeli officials say that they were blipped sided by the reconciliation agreement that was aflounced on wednesday. in fact in the statement instead of choosing peace, referring to palestinian president, formed an alliance with the murderous terrorist organization that called for the destruction of israel. in the statement, the israelis also said steal

will respond to unilateral action, with a series of measures. referring to possibly implementing more sanctions on the palestinian authority. this afternoon he said what happens next is up to fata. >> he had a choice. peace with israel, or pack with the terrorist hamas, and he chose to make the packet with hamas. so that's the blow for peace, and i hope he changes his mind, until he does so, i think it is very important that we have clarity, as long as i'm prime minister of dream,ly never negotiate with a palestinian government backed by terrorist organizations committed to our destruction. secretary of state has spent a lot of time getting israelis and palestinians to the negotiating table, but all indications are that was a waste of time. randall pinkston is live with with more on how the u.s. is reacting to these latest developments.

randall, are these done and dusted at the moment? >> well, tony, no one is saying nit those words. but for all practical effects it appears to be that the latest effort is at a standstill. still, neither israel nor the palestinians nor the u.s., will say officially that it is over now, as we reported yesterday, in charge of the west bank, announced plans for unity deal with hamas, which controlled gaza, and that deal include plans for a national election in about five weeks. should have no impact on peace talks but as we have heard, prime miner and says hamas is a terrorist organization, and he properly u.s. secretary spented talks. so the next move appears to be in the hands of the u.s., keeping in mind, that these peak talks were being held by secretary of state john kerry, who in the past nine months has shuffled

between the u.s., and the west bank, trying to work out a frame work that might lead to a two week solution. we may see a way forward, but they are not willing to make the compromises it becomes very illusive. we will never give up our hope or or committerment to the possibilities of peace. we believe it is the only way to go. right now it is a very difficult mountain, and the leaders themselveses have to make decisions. it is up to them. >> no one expects steal to budge an inch on talks. they just won't do it, so if as they say, it is up to the leaders the talks for now appear to beover. >> all right.

tensions between russia and ukraine reach add new level today. russia's defense ministry announced new exercises for troops near the border. this comes as ukrainian forces launched an operation to drive russian activists from occupied buildings. up to five people have died. al jazeera has more now. >> we with are at a new ukrainian army check point. what we are hearing is that the situation in the town is now calm. earlier today troops did move forward. and they dispanted perhaps three roadblocks. the exchange with fire, and the ukrainians say that up to five people are killed on the separatist side.

earlier in the morning i was at a funeral of the man whose court was discovered a couple of days ago. and he is believed to have been tor curred and then murdered by prorussian separatists. that's what the ukrainian government says that funeral was a very charged affair. people flying the ukrainian flag, firing guns into the air, and a great deal of emotion. >> pro russian armied gunman have released journalist they have detained since tuesday. which had been covering the crisis in the region. vice news confirmed that he is free and in good health. president obama is in

asia, but keeping an eye on developments in ukraine today in tokyo, the president said a new round of sanctions is already "teed up." if once again russia fails to abide by the spirit and the letter of what was discussed there will be further consequences and we will ramp up further sanctions. >> and those comments came during a news conference with japanese prime minister. day two in japan is winding down. the president leaving japan's imperial palace after a state dinner hosted by the emperor. he travels to south korea. tonight, mike is with the president. >> there tokyo, what they had been waiting to hear. if a dispute with china over remote islands escalated to armed conflict. >> let me reiterate, that our treaty commitment to security is absolutely. and article 5 covers all territories under japan's

administration. including this. >> china has a different name, the dao, and recently claimed them as their own. mr. obama fought the contention, that he would -- and an american trading partner. >> with want to encouraging the peaceful rise of china. wednesday night, the prime minister treated mr. obama to dinner at a famed sushi restaurant, in the morning a ceremonial greeting. buttening haing over it all in including ukraine. the president says it appears russia is not living up to it's commit mend, made just last thursday to step back. also al jazeera, knock coe. >> the food and drug an

mid vagues, is moving to crack down. new rules to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products as their popularity continues to soar. joining us now from washington, and tom, what is the fda considering here? >> well, you know, tony, several large cities have already put regulations on where you can use these electronic cigarettes restricted them in public areas just like conventional tobacco. but for the first time now, the fda is laying down it's proposed rules for how it wants to regulate the industry, and by the way, not only e cigarettes but also tobacco from for pipes and cigars. a lot of people don't know that, so this is a rule or an announcement that has been long in coming and will a lot of the fine print still remains to be filled in. >> it's taken five years

for the fda to regulate. big tobacco companies are leading the way, offering new products with advertising pitches like this. >> i get to have it without the guilty, because it is on vapor that means no ashe, no odor. >> the regulations would require ingredients to be listed. limit claims have reduced lists to those on scientific evidence. including health warns and ban vending machine sales unless they are located where underage use is barred. which according to some critics are particularly credited at users. there's a lot of

companies making products that may or may not be preventable. promoters say they hope to reduce the smoking rate, which hasn't fallen much below 20%. e cigarettes i think will more likely be part of the solution than the problem. >> well, the big question about e cigarettes is will may reduce the number of people as smoke, or will they act as a gate way to smoking especially among kids. >> the answer will depend on the shape of the regulations and research to determine whether e cigarettes help convert smoking habits into something safer. >> now these antitobacco campaigners what they are saying is it's okay that the fda has finally come out.

at least to propose them to put them out for public comment, that, in fact, the industry is way ahead of them. but given that, how long it will be before these new rules take effect? they believe there will be a lot of comments both pro and con, and also following that, after the fda reciteses them for final approval, the companies will have two years to actually phase in their product, to file marry applications and reg industry, and all during that time, the companies will still be able to market the products just as they are doing right now. >> joining us from washington, d.c. postal workers are protesting outside staple stores. they want to stop the

nation's largest office supply chain from opening minipostoffices inside the stories. one protest here in new york city. >> tony, good afternoon. from the american postal workers union, dan, you are not happy about the idea of minipostoffices. >> no, not 457 picture at all. as a union officer, we represent all the locals all the the post offices in new york city, and the bronx, what we do is we are here frying to tell this postal service, that we want to protect our jobs and also want to protect the mail and the rights of the people. >> seeing from staples point of view, they would say for us it is a good thing, what's wrong with that. >> for me, as a union person, first thing is wrong, is they hire low wage. they do not hire union

people. they do not pay union wages. and it isn't so much the higher pay as much as the benefits that go with it. it is to protect people, to give people a living wage. not looking to become rich or famous, just to have a comfortable life. >> and that's what we are trying to push to protect our own. >> do you see this as the thin edge. expands this at the moment, experiment to put more post officers into staples that other parts of the business will go private as well? >> without a doubt. this is like a wedge 100%. this to me, you are talking they have 1800 stores staples. so that's like them jumping out and saying look, we have a free network. ins a very good business, for the post office to connect to, but the down side, again, i always have to go back, is this is to corporate interest. this is not to union interest, and to the public. the public loses when all of this is done, the public is the losing factor.

the 2014 elections include several high profile elections and once has sparked an intense debate, about whether a lawyer who occasionally defended criminals should have that held against him. david chuter joins us now. >> tony, a television ad in the south carolina governors race has quickly become the most controversial ad of this campaign season. nikki haley is fried to win re-election. and the group has launched an attack ad against democrat. the democratic challengeser a former prosecutor who and done defense work, so television viewers are now seeing this. >> shaheen defended violent criminals and went to work setting them free. next time he says he will protect from violent criminals, ask him, what about the ones that paid

them. he protects criminals. >> he said criminal defense works makes uhm only a small part of his practice, which mostly is on civil work. and most are from more than ten years ago. two republican governors association a group running the ad is led by new jersey governor chris christie. and even christie's own lawyer in the bridge gate scandal is hammering him and the rga for the attack. the huffington post, "i did watch the ad, and wow it is a disgrace, the people who talked about american exceptionalism out to demonstrate some understanding and some respect for what makes our system truly admirable, that includes the willingness of lawyers to stand up for their clintons matter how ugly the allegation." the republican governors association says it stands by the ad, and for his part, governor kristy has been unavailable. chris christie has been willing to comment on and sing the praises of fellow republican scott walker of wisconsin. the later issue of time

magazine lists the one most influential people of 2014. christie's blurb praising walker. both christie and walker are considering a 2016 presidential run. >> finally, a new poll released this week is undermining the idea that obama-care is a sure fire loser for any governor who embraces it. the new york times poll shows that the governors of arkansas and kentucky, that expanded it, are hugely popular. their approval ratings are 20% higher. two other governors declined to expand medicaid, to cover low income residents. both of those are under water in their approval, in other words, their disapproval is now higher than their approval. there isn't necessarily a direct relation. but it is creating some

anxiety. >> a huge hit for g.m. after they recalled millions of cars and looked at the companies new earnings report, that is next, and all week we have been telling you about how frequency trading. today we focus on why it hasn't been regulated or investigated.

general motors is starting to feel the impact of recalling millions of its vehicles. we have learned today that its profits dropped more than 85% subpoena in detroit, with more, is g.m. based on those numbers in some real trouble here? >> tony, despite it's issues people are still buying g.m. vehicles. in fact, the company said that they are seeing the same amount of customers as they did last year. as you mentioned the recalls have definitely impacted g.m.'s bottom line. and the auto maker will take a $1.3 million

charge, to fix these recalled vehicles and it has also dropped their profit down by over 80%. i had the opportunity to speak with an analyst here in detroit. and he says that the auto maker isn't all that bad off, despite today's earnings. >> when you take out the $1 billion charge that g.m. took in the first quarter for the recalls, this company was very successful both here and abroad. so moving forward, what i am curious to see is how long will the recall impact last on the profit margin, the bottom line. >> and the past couple of months they have been difficult for the auto maker, right now g.m. is at the center of several investigations in regular to it's ignition switch recall, which took it over ten years to report. now, while it's image has been tarnished, sales haven't suffered. >> at this point there

isn't an impact on the sales. effected in the recall, are no longer name plates you can buy on the new car lot. you can still buy them used and some dealers report that people are still coming out to buy used co bolt. but at the same time, the new car sales it wouldn't expect much of an impact now or in the coming months. >> the auto maker said it was too early to tell the long term impact of all of these recalls. g.m. is expected to complete it's an internal investigation into the matner the coming weeks. >> all right, bisi for us in detroit. wall street didn't know really what to make of the mixed reports. stocked bounces from positive to negative, back again all day. at the end of the day, the dough closed exactly -- look at that number. it started where it ended and ended where it started. the s&p 500 nasdaq both finished slightly higher.

we have told you a lot about high frequency trading and you may wonder what regulators and law enforcement officials are doing. the unfortunate answer is until recently not much. and to get an idea of how feeble the response has been, feeble is the word here, real money ali velshi takes us back to the flash crash. of may 6th, 2010. >> the dow jones briefly lost a 998 points. almost $1 trillion of value. the securities and exchange commission issues a report. largely blaming high frequency traders for the crash. the s.e.c. didn't feel compelled to take any action towards high frequency trading until two years later.

on sent 14, 2012. that's when they find the new york stock exchange $5 million. that settled allegations that they were sending valuable trading dare that to high frequency traders ahead of other customers. so where has the s.e.c. been since they fined the new york stock exchange back in 2012? mary joe white the chairman of the sec told congress on april 1st, that her agency has been actively investigated possible wrongdoing by high frequency traders. >> we currently have, i can't talk about specifics but a number of on going investigations, regarding various market integrity and structure issues. we are very much focused on any abuses. >> but the real problem is that is sec does haven't the resouthers or the man power to do their job and conduct thorough

investigations. mary joe white confirmed as much in her testimony. in 2001. today, we have only eight. more coverage is plainly needed as the industry itself has acknowledged. >> until recently, bart chilton was a commissioner of the future trading commission. he confirmed with us that underfunding is a chronic problem for financial regulators. >> regulators are overburdened with work. regulators don't have the resources to do the job. currently there are people in markets getting away with crime, because they don't have the resouthers to pursue them. >> al jazeera. you can see more of high frequency trading. that's 7:00 p.m. in the east, 4:00 p.m. in the west. pay to play on the internet. new rules proposed today could force the sites

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al jazeera america. >> results of analyses were skewed in favor of the prosecution >> the fbi can't force the states to look at those cases >> the truth will set you free yeah...don't kid yourself >> the system has failed me story now.ack to our top officials say an afghan security guard opened fire, killing a doctor and two others and wounding an american nurse. with us, he is the chairman and founder of mission restore, that is a medical charity that works out of the very cure facility in kabul where the shooting took place. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> were you surprised to hear this news?

>> i think i was surprised about how it happened. that there were people inside the hospital compound. but not about the fact that securities actually at risk. way had a recent interview, that we are supposed to do through distant learning that was canceled. >> when were you last in the country? >> i was there at the hospital about two years ago. >> how would you describe the security at that time? >> when i arrived it was about a few days after the attack. the hospital off the main road, and there was actually a car bomb that exploded right by the hospital. that p intended to go after an american military bus. so it was heightened at the time. it is manned by afghan guards. >> so no americans securing that, and mostly afghans or all afghans. >> it is all afghans. >> i have lived in the

region, never in afghanistan, but from your experience, working in afghanistan, and living there, what is that experience like? there is certainly a number of people that have had it, certainly the military impact. but there is certainly many many afghans who appreciate the benefits of getting treatment from western trained physicians. so -- square that circle for me and what it is like to live in afghanistan in all these years after the start of this war. >> yeah, obviously the people that will involved with the hospital, very important, a lot of great work, trying to allow the afghans to be trained there and take care of their own patients. i would say basically, it -- the issue is that

most afghans are very much collaborative, and they really appreciate everyone coming in. but anyone that is outright as being an american, sort of at risk. >> so keep your head down? >> everybody keep as very low profile. stay at safety houses, there's no size of being associated -- because you just don't know what the feeling is on the main street. but the doctors, the healthcare providers, the patients are very appreciative, and we have had a great collaborative effort. >> i would think you would also be aware, as a werner, working and living in afghanistan, that is proticketed by afghan police and security forces, of the on going issue of infiltration of those forces by more radical elements in the country. >> yeah, that's certainly an on going concern. whether it's in hospital,

or in government establishments. >> have doctors been targeted? >> yes, i believe -- certainly going outside of kabul, it is a known thing among the healthcare providers that there was attack on the doctors without borders, and there was a more recent abduction of a doctor about a year ago, where the navy seals had to go in and help rescue the doctor. so everyone is aware of it. but certainly hasn't stopped a lot of people to be there, and try to help. >> that's what i want to ask, and the last question is that sense of mission. the nurse who is wounded now, the father and son, who were with killed in this attack. tell me why the doctors like yourself & do this work in these? is. >> it is part of what we do.

29 million population, there are only two surgeons that are trained to do these. we want to be part of providing the next generation. who are on the ground, that's where we would like to collaborate. at the end of the day, we are all the same, and people need to help. as physicians that's what we do. that's where we have the most need. >> you concerned about security moving forward? >> now we are going to more tell medicine model and even invite the

physicians to come here. thank you for being here. >> that pal, the government is still trying to salvage the mound everest climbing season. government officials went to a base camp to meet with they are pas. many of them plan to leave because of the number of climbs have been canceled. in pakistan, the military has launched strikes. in a spring of recent attacks it comes on the same day a bomb blast killed a police officer known for his campaigns against militants. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it comes as the government is trying to restart talks with a taliban group in the country. in syria an air strike killed more than 60 people, they have seized heavy weapons after

taking over an army post. >> activists are calling this a massacre. instantly tushing it into a place of death, and tears. the market was crowded at the time. the dead include women and children. many more were injured the bloodies bring evidence of the carnage. also in an airport, rebels say they destroyed their weapons in a cement factory. fighters use makeshift heavy al tillry in the attack with spectacular results although al jazeera cannot independently verify the footage. to the south and in the country side, rebel forces claim advances. despite the oppositions

political divide fighters from the islamic front a group of powerful rebel brigades and free syrian army fighters say they are in control of the joel and the israeli occupied. elsewhere in syria, the advancement of the forces isn't cooing. >> and entire town forced out of their homes by a gas explosion. maria has that and a look at other headlines from across the country today. >> yes. residents of a small town of of pal wyoming have been allowed to return home. two hours after an explosion at a natural gas plant forced them to evacuate, the fire is still burning but crews say there is no threat of

a second explosion, no one was hurt in the town of 95 people. investigators are looking at what caused the blast. in oklahoma, the governor says two death row prisoners will be executed next tuesday. the announcement comes after a legal battle over the source of the he that will drugs. the state's high court ruled the inmates are now entitled to know the drug manufacturer, but also dissolve add stay of execution it had issued earlier in the week, in a much criticized decision. this will be the first double execution in oklahoma since 1937. in california is navy has reassign add former commander of the blue angels. an internal document emailed to the post shows a form err member of the blue angels file add complaint last month. it accuses captain gregory mcweather of promoting a hostile work environment. the navy is investigating allegations that they were involved in hazing, sexual harassment, and other discrimination. the air force is simplifying the way it

grades monthly exams. the certification will now be a pass fail test. the announcement comes after recent cheating scandal involved hundreds of officers. service brass blame the cheating on a culture where perfect score is needed to advance. the fate of a popular hot sauce maker is up in the air. the local city counsel de -- about 100 supporters of the hot sauce rallies outside city hall, but neighbors say spicy fumes from the plant are burning their eyes and throat. an attorney for the company says the filtration system will be in place by june 1st. >> that's hot. >> that is hot. >> all right, appreciate it, thank you. after decades and advances medical workers have nearly eradicated polio, but in the last few years the disease has made a come back. and 89-year-old illinois grandmother is frying to

stop that trend. usher sat down with her. >> they always say hello, grandma. >> mary pours over cherished pictures, but these aren't her own grandchildren. they are the hundreds of children she has met and perhaps helped save. >> this lovely child, you know, with no legs. that you can see he is really bright. >> for over 20 years mary has traveled the globe as a volunteer for rotary international with the single minded goal of ending polio. >> those children shouldn't have get it in today's world. i am effected by the people. effected by the polio survivors who are crawling on the ground. are sitting on the curb. begging. and i would like to make it so that those young children that not be in

their life. >> the disabling and potentially fatal disease has been erack kateed in most countries. but it still pose as serious threat in nigeria, pakistan. of the 61 cases that have been report sod far in 2014, 52 are in those countries. but nine of the cases are from outbreaks in other nations. in part, because of an influx of refugees. >> ending polio really focused on areas that are insecure, for example in northern pakistan, and areas that are experiences conflict. children in those areas it is very difficult to have them access polio vaccines. >> that's where volunteers like mary are stepping in to reach them. and she believes her 25 years as an elementary school principal give her an advantage. >> it helps because i am older, because my hair is gray. and that i'm a grandmother. >> at 89 years old, she isn't thinking of stopping now. >> it's exciting. because right now to this

day, only one case in nigeria. since the beginning of the year. >> so mary how long will you continue do do this? >> as long as i'm physically able. >> devoting her life to helping children, and she isn't finished yet. usher, al jazeera, arlington heights illinois. >> and coming up on al jazeera america, new rules that could force websites to fay if they want their content loaded quickly, why net neutrality, has a lot of critics. frequency trading >> there are no rules or regulations >> all this week on the new expanded real money with ali velshi helping you balance your finances and your life. now an hour, starting at 7 eastern / 4 pacific only on al jazeera america downlw

one year ago today, 1100nlw people died when a garment factory collapsed in bangladesh. in the after math the government promised change. but it has been slow to come. more now from bangladesh. >> many of these men are rich garment factory owners. their part of an industry

that forms -- they are here today to pray for people that earn little more than 1 dollar as day. the workers inside the garment factory. when the building chanced one year ago, killed 1,129 garment workers. it was the latest in a series of disasters that struck the industry, and it appears the one that finally shocked owners into action. the president of the garment owners association, says it's group is taken care of the children of the victims. >> we give them the food, and retake the responsibility, until they -- this is our commitment, and we want to continue our commitment as well. >> to mark the anniversary of the disaster, the owners marched from the headquarters to the hotel, 200 meters away. owners and international retail are under pressure to compensate families many of whom no longer have an income.

he was also helped that will hand owl $640 to each victim. the international labor organization is coordinated the effort. the ilo says this is just the first round of payments and more will be deferred as claims are assessed. but it is taken an entire year. in the meantime, many of those effected have had to resort to begging and borrowing in order to get by. >> the husband volunteered as a rescue worker after the building collapsed. today he can no longer work because of physical and mental health. >> it is very difficult for me now, i can't send my child to school. it is so bad i can't even buy milk for my baby. >> rescue, workerrers have received no compensation. and medals won't feed their families. a year may have passed, but many who have been effected by it say the

problems still linger. al jazeera. >> big changes could be coming to the intern net today, the federal communications net neutrality rules if it goes forward. it would mean websites that want their con feint to letted and stream faster would have to pay for it. and the rest of the internet, could become very slow. science and technology correspondent explains. >> the idea of net neutrality is that the companies who carry the internet to you and me, should treat all traffic equally. whether you want to see content from netflix, or a website that your mom just put up, it means they both arrive at the same speed. until now, net neutrality had been an unwritten rule, and then the fec tries to code fie it with written rules that mandated equality. the fec was shot down by an appeals court, and sowner trying again. this time is sec has changed really only one thing, and it is a big

deal. under the new rules the companies that bring you the internet, carriers like comcast, and verizon and others can now ex-gauge in pay to play arrangements. netflix, for instance, already pays to make sure their movies are streamed quickly, and now everybody will have that kind of option. the problem is here that it will create two levels of service. one for the sites that can pay a premium, and one for the rest of the web. under these rules one level of service is going to be a lot slower than the other. maybe a lot slower. this isn't really a technical problem, it is just a question of business. charging you for fast err access to the web is a main stay of the business. but now, they will also be able to charge the sites that you are trying to reach. and that represents an enormous money making opportunity. unfortunately, by allowing internet providers to take advantage of that, the fec seems to be changes the cold, even reliable

nature of the web, the neutral web, that we with have all taken for granted. >> seattle's mayor is said to announce his own plan to increase the city's minimum wage, after business and labor groups failed to reach an agreement. ed murray says he wanted wages to go up to $15 an hour. but a lot of local businesses say that is financially risky. al jazeera joins us live now, and allen, we expect to hear from this mayor in about an hour. tell us about the challenges his plan will certainly face. >> where they have run into problems is what do you do if you raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, how do you handle people who are making $9.30 now, but may be

making $20 an hour a more in tips. do you raise them to $15 as well. do their tips have to be declared as income. some other issues will this apply to small companies, the same way it applies to large companies. will it be instituted like that boom. july 1st, everybody pays $15 an hour. or can it be phased in other time. what do you do with the nonprofit whose are looking at their bottom lines and saying if we pay our people, $15 minimum wage, we may have to cut services to the poor. so there are still a lot of issues to be dealt with. and as of yesterday, there was no deal coming out of this committee, who had been studying this issue, a group of labor and business leaders. and they have been studying it for some time. the mayor said he was going to make a statement about his plan, he postponed that, we are now waiting on a second time for a different kind of announcement, and frankly, tony, we don't know at this point whether that will be the mayor saying this is what i want to see, or whether there has been enough pressure that a bigger

deal is going to come out. so right now, we are wait withing to see, 6:00 o'clock eastern. this is fascinating so clearly it would seem to me a phased in approach makes sense, be uh the business owners have been working on this for some time. what are they saying here? >> well, a couple of different things. there have been a number of business who is have said is that's fine, we will jump onboard. we can do this, let's make it happen. there are others that have said we don't know how it will impact our business, and there have been quite a few that say look, we will have to make changes. we may have to layoff people. so there's a large group of those that say we can't do business if we have to pay $15 anulare. waiting that announcement from the mayor. allen, appreciate it. a teenager boy dying of cancer decided to do something important with his life, and what an impact he has made.

his incredible fund raising drive and his huge donation, to charity. that story is next.

it is not the season, so every apple counts. this is their lifeline. >> after collection, women extract from the apple. the children open the

pod, making sure it does not break. when all is done, he semis his produce to middlemen, at a cost that is hardly enough for his family's basic needs. >> it is difficult. when you don't have stock to sell, we borrow from neighbors. >> the second largest cashew nut producer. it exports roughly 150 million cans and makes about $60 million, but they are still too poor. >> most of the farmers here cannot access the export market, so they sell their cashew nuts at lower prices in markets such as this one. >> regularly local prizes make it even harder nor them to make a profit. >> at the moment, they are trying to do a study of how to raise the prices so that everyone including the farmers can benefit. >> the struggling economy

is almost entirely depend on it's cashew nut industry. yet the country's also rich with minerals and an array of exotic islands popular with tourists. >> how do you run a state, and provide services to your people with an economy that mostly is on tax station of cashew nuts. so there has to be an significant effort, and based on the state as well. >> but in the meantime, he continues with his modest business, of the fact that what he sells costs so much more, from super market in countries so far away from his village. al jazeera. well, here is one of those stories. hundreds of thousands of people are following stephen's story, right now. at this moment. the 19-year-old teenager in the u.k., has terminal cancer. over the last year, stephen has spent his days raising more than 3 million dollars for his

favorite charity. maria is back with that story. >> yeah, tony, as soon as stephen found out his cancer was incurable he decided to make a difference with the time he has left. take a listen to what he told a group of people recently. >> i do not know how long i have left to live. but juan of the reasons is because measure life in terms of time, i would rather measure in terms of what i achieve. i would rather measure it in terms of making a difference. >> . >> he has been on social media, mosting pictures many of which are him smiling and raising money for one of his charities. that helps teens with cancer. but his recent brush with death came just this past week, where he posted this farewell. he says it is a final sums up for me, i've done wail to blog things as well as i have until now, but unfortunately i think

this is just one hurdle too far. and then later on, he tweeted, hanging in there, as best as i can. and jason manford who is a comedian in the u.k. wrote, good lad, don't be in pain, though, trust me, i will get it to 1 million pounds you go to sleep whenever you need to. love j.m. he is talking about his charity. over the last 12 hours hundreds of people have been posting images with #thumbs up for stephen, asking people to donate to his charity, including a member of the rolling stones. >> wow. >> also including -- >> you will recognize him, that's right. and this image just came recently, from jason manford, he is in the hospital with stephen. then to the teenager cancer ward visited a few amazing people including stephen. and stephen says he is still here, he is still fighting, and this is how much they have raised over 2 million pounds.

that's over $3 million. >> isn't that amazing. online to help others. all right, appreciate it. thank you. >> that's our news hour, tony harris in new york city, inside story is next on al jazeera america. for a long time these e cigarettes existed in a very lightly regulated world. now the fda is proposing new rules. it's the inside story.